Welcome to Season 2 of Public Health On Call, a podcast from the Johns Hopkins

Bloomberg School of Public Health.

I'm Joshua Sharfstein, Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement,

and a former secretary of Maryland's Health Department.

Our goal is to bring scientific evidence and experience to the public health news of the day

through informative interviews with scientists, community leaders, policy experts, public health

officials, clinicians, and more. If you have ideas or questions for us to cover, please email us at

Public Health Question at jhhhu.edu. That's public health question at jhhu.edu for future

podcast episodes. In this bonus episode, I speak to Dr. Tom Inglesby, director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Health

Security about the White House outbreak of COVID-19. Our topics include the origins of the outbreak,

what likely happened at the Saturday reception, and what's necessary to get the outbreak under

control. We also discuss whether future presidential debate

should be moved online, whether the vice president

needs to self-quarantine, and the threat right now

of a major outbreak of COVID-19 that cuts across the corridors

of power in Washington, D.C.

Our conversation was recorded in the evening of

Sunday, October 3rd. Let's listen. Dr. Inglesby, thank you so much for joining me for an extra

episode of the Public Health on Call podcast, given the extraordinary White House outbreak of coronavirus.

Before we get started, I just want to say that I think both of us hope the president and the other people who are sick with coronavirus get better very

quickly. It may be a few more days before we really know that the president has recovered. Would

you agree? Yeah, at this point, I think it's a lot of assuring, reassuring

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